I think my son's hamster is deaf. The poor little critter had to suffer through endless hours of listening to a teenager trying to learn to play his electric guitar (at full volume when I wasn't at home.)

Yesterday I transported 3 cats by car from Calgary to Edmonton, a three-hour trip. The two-year-old was miserable and howled most of the way .... until I tuned the radio to a teeny-bopper station which played the likes of the Backstreet Boys and Manson. Did it lull the cat to sleep? ... or was it simply the last straw in a series of terrifying experience and noises that made the cat catatonic? I'll never know.

Bob